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dianetics, n. pl.|daɪəˈnɛtɪks|
[Alteration of dianoetic n.]
A system, developed by the American writer L. Ron Hubbard, that has as its aim the relief of psychosomatic illnesses by a process of cleansing the mind of harmful mental images. Hence diaˈnetic a., of or pertaining to dianetics.
1950Time 24 July, A new cult is smouldering through the U.S. underbrush. Its name: dianetics. Last week its bible, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, was steadily climbing the U.S. bestseller lists. 1950A. Huxley Let. 10 Dec. (1969) 634 We have been looking into dianetics. 1951L. R. Hubbard Dianetics p. xii, The main contributions of dianetic theory to the field of psychology and psychotherapy are seven fundamental assumptions. Ibid. i. 6 Dianetics..contains a therapeutic technique with which can be treated all inorganic mental ills and all organic psycho-somatic ills. 1954J. Christopher 22nd Cent. 140 A group of pseudo-scientific mystical fanatics..who went in for a thing called dianetics. 1955A. Huxley Let. 24 Oct. (1969) 769 Dianetic procedures were tried..but there was absolutely no recall. 1960Guardian 1 July 9/4 A series of cod psychoanalytic scenes and ‘dianetic’ games are then evolved. |